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19 Apr 2020

Software Engineer Interview

Anonymous Interview Candidate

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Negative Experience

Easy Interview

Application

I applied through other source. I interviewed at Equal Experts.

Interview

Some recruiter of that company reached out for me, asking if I would be interested in working for Equal Experts. Got a very simple but ambiguous coding challenge to hand in remotely. Afterwards, there was a meeting with two of their developers in a rented meeting room and another coding challenge. Also, very simple task. Talking and discussing with the developers about the pros and cons of different coding styles and language constructs was not possible. The mood in both challenges was "do the thing with as least code and as least effort as possible". Was not a match on both side, I was not interested in working for that company afterwards and they also didn't wanted because I don't know enough of the standard library of the used programming language in my head…. From my point of view that indicated that either the company does not know that programming is primarily problem solven or the project they perform are extremely simple.

In the end a big waste of my time, as they reached out for me. I think I will charge a fee for the next company that wants me to do a code challenge.

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I applied online. The process took a week. I interviewed at Equal Experts (Pune (India)) in February 2019.

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3 rounds:1. Very enjoyable code pairing round with appropriate time allocated to solve a design problem. Appropriate and rewarding application of TDD approach.2. General technical discussion along with design discussions.3. Final discussion to discuss culture, aspirations, thought process, and fitment.

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I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Equal Experts (London, England (UK)).

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Telephone Chat with Recruiter, Offline FizzBuzz coding test.

Have to chase the feedback for more than a week and then was told I am not successful because I have over-engineered the test. That's it, no explanation. Felt like I have wasted my time, but also can't help thinking that dodged a bullet there.

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I applied online. The process took 4+ weeks. I interviewed at Equal Experts (Lisbon (Portugal)) in May 2016.

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Phases:-CV screening-Phone conversation with HR-Easy technical problem to do at home (modified FizzBuzz that should be done using TDD).-On-site pair-programming session for an easy problem (90m)-On-site system design problem (this one was challenging, involved distributed systems concepts) and general conversation on the company's culture (90m)

Failed due to general lack of experience (applied with <1 professional experience) and subpar performance in the pair-programming session (due to bad TDD).

Everyone involved was great, and the process had nearly zero BS. It is worth attending just to get to know their culture.

Cons: having to support travelling expenses and not realizing TDD was so crucial during pair-programming. Shared responsibility in the last point, since from previous conversations it was clear the company highly valued it, but I guess that could've been stressed before starting the exercise (I was expecting something more algorithmical and that's not the right mindset for this).

Step 2 :- Technical interview :- Its kind of hollow interview they are more worried about specific terms like "S.O.L.I.D principles", rather then approaches / problem solving. Some question around my project .. I am sure they hardly understand any part of my project and then asked me to design shopping cart. Some question on design/scalability this discussion I really liked .key to crack : Mug all design principle/ design patterns by name (definitions only)

Step 3 :- Discussion with the Country head some question about project and general technical stuff easy to crack.

Now come to pathetic part ... after each round you will get a long feedback from HR it is totally useless he is trying all left right center to brag about the company.

So now time to offer they offered really low salary that I was drawing at that time with false promise of onsite and profit sharing after spending 2 years....

I don't know why any one will join them on lower or same salary ..... as far as I know 30% hike is market minimum.. I declined offer.

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I applied online. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Equal Experts (Pune (India)) in February 2015.

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First round is telephonic round, next they take Coding interview (aka Pairing round or pair programming round)at their office and then technical and then Directory round if all of the previous ones are cleared. Equal experts focused on pair programming, thinking about now and not future but code should be extendable for future, GRASP, KISS, SOLID,DRY, Open Closed priniciple concept and Junit testing during pairing round.In the technical interview they focused on my current project and data modelling and coding approach on the problem they gave me to solve.

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